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A legal newspaper of general circulation inEl Paso County, Colorado, the Tri-Lakes Tribune is published weekly on Wednesday by Colorado Community Media, 1200 E. Highway 24, Woodland Park, CO 80863. PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT MONUMENT, COLORADO and additional mailing offi ces.

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Tribune sold to local owners Plans to intensify community focus Sta� report

Your local newspaper, the Tri-Lakes Tribune, got a whole lot more local when it was purchased Friday by longtime residents of the Pikes Peak region: Cary and Bill Vogrin of Colorado Springs.

To buy the Tribune, the Vogrins teamed with Susie Burghart and Rich Tosches, who also have deep roots in the community. The two couples formed Pikes Peak News-papers Inc. to purchase the paper from Colorado Community Media in Highlands Ranch. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

“Cary and I are thrilled to im-merse ourselves in the Tri-Lakes community,” said Bill Vogrin, who will serve as editor and write a weekly column. He will join long-time publisher Rob Carrigan, who will remain in that position.

“We have accompanied Rob and his wife, Niki Miscovich, on frequent visits to the area,” Vogrin said. “With them, we have enjoyed concerts and festivals, discovered great restaurants and pubs and

made friends across Palmer Lake, Monument, Gleneagle, Woodmoor and Black Forest.”

The Vogrins have long admired the area.

“Cary grew up in rural Wisconsin and we love the character, charm and friendly people unique to small towns. We know there are great sto-ries to tell here and we’re excited to practice community journalism at its purest level.”

The Vogrins and Rich Tosches are familiar names in the region, having worked 20-years plus at area newspapers.

Cary Vogrin worked at the Rocky Mountain News and then the Colo-rado Springs Gazette after arriving in the area in 1994 from the San Francisco Bay Area where she was an award-winning editor at the Contra Costa Times daily newspa-per. In 2007, she left The Gazette to start a Papa Murphy’s Take ‘N’ Bake pizza franchise.

Bill Vogrin came to the region in 1994 after 13-plus years writing for The Associated Press in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois. He held vari-ous writing and editing positions at The Gazette, including City Editor, before launching his Side Streets neighborhood column in 2002.

Tosches was a reader favorite

as a columnist at The Gazette, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. He came to the re-gion in 1993 from the Los Angeles Times, where he was a sports writer and humor columnist. He started his career at United Press Interna-tional.

And Burghart is well-known as a longtime resident, Colorado Col-

lege graduate, philanthropist and member of her alma mater’s board of trustees.

“The very best newspapers are the ones that readers, customers, sources and the community itself, take great pride of ownership and trust in. Bill and Cary, Rich and Susie understand that. I am proud to be associated with owners that demonstrate such high ideals and

understanding of our important lo-cal, local, local mission. I plan to do my level best, to seek that trust and partnership with the community,” said Carrigan, who will continue to write his “Restless Native” column for the Courier but will shift more of his attention to expanding services to subscribers and advertisers.

“Our goal is to build on the strong foundation Rob has in place at the Tribune and make it even better,” Bill Vogrin said. “We want the Tribune to tell folks things they didn’t know about the Tri-Lakes re-gion, to entertain them, introduce them to their neighbors and be a place to turn to for help when they have problems.”

Gerald Healey, publisher of Colorado Community Media, said he and his wife, Ann Macari, were happy the paper would stay in local control.

“We’re pleased to sell to a lo-cal family with a strong newsroom background who is committed to community journalism,” Healey said. “The newspapers will benefi t greatly from having Bill, a longtime area resident who understands lo-cal issues, as editor and president.”

Healey said the sale would allow CCM to sharpen its focus on its 15 suburban Denver publications.

Former owners Gerald Healey and his wife Ann Macari, with new owners Cary and Bill Vogrin. Photo by Rob Carrigan

Tri-Lakes 4th of July Events Palmer Lake Elementary School to bene� t from Fun Run proceeds Sta� report

WHATThe Tri-Lakes area embodies

its strong community ties and in-volvement in hosting its annual 4th of July festivities: Palmer Lake Fun Run, pancake breakfast, street fair, music festival, and parade.

WHOSuperintendent Karen Brofft,

Lewis-Palmer School District 38, will join community members in the Monument Hill Kiwanis An-nual 4th of July Parade. Palmer Lake Elementary School staff and volunteers host the 33rd Annual Fun Run. St Peter Catholic Church Knights of Columbus host its an-nual pancake breakfast. The Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce or-ganizes the Monument Street Fair, and the Town of Monument coor-dinates the Music Festival.

WHENFun Run: 7 a.m., Saturday, July

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cake Breakfast: 7-10 a.m., Satur-day, July 4

Tri-Lakes Chamber of Com-merce Street Fair: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m., Saturday, July 4

Monument Hill Kiwanis Chil-dren’s Parade: 9:30 a.m., Saturday, July 4, 2015

Monument Hill Kiwanis Pa-rade: 10 a.m., Saturday, July 4

Monument Music Festival: Noon-9 p.m., Saturday, July 4

WHERERace: Palmer Lake Santa Fe

Trailhead, Palmer LakePancake Breakfast: St Peter

Catholic Church, 55 N. Jefferson St., Monument

Parade and Music Festival: Downtown Monument

Street Fair: Second Street and Washington streets, Monument

HOW

Parade spectators are encour-aged to come early, park at Palmer Ridge High School or Lewis-Palm-er High School, and ride the free LPSD bus to and from downtown Monument (donations accepted). Pancake breakfast: free coffee from 6:30 a.m. on, adult tickets $7, children (younger than 12) $4, military and fi rst responders in

uniform-free.

HIGHLIGHTS7 a.m. - Fun run begins.7 a.m. - Pancake breakfast be-

gins.8 a.m. - Street Fair begins.9:30 a.m. - Children’s parade

begins. 10:00 a.m. - Parade begins.Noon - music festival begins

The Tri-Lakes area embodies its strong community ties and involvement in hosting its annual 4th of July festivities: Palmer Lake Fun Run, pancake breakfast, street fair, music festival, and parade. Photo by Rob Carrigan

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A heart for dogs and helping people Monument organization trains for service By Danny Summers [email protected]

Candy Muscari-Erdos has a passion for dogs, and a passion for teaching dogs how to help people.

In 2006, Muscari-Erdos started Moun-tain High Service Dogs, Inc., an organiza-tion located in Monument that trains ser-vice dogs for people with a variety of issues ranging from post traumatic stress disor-der, autism, epilepsy, allergies and diabetic alert.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Muscari-Erdos said. “I enjoy it a lot. We have a great time with the dogs. There are days I enjoy being with the dogs more than people.”

Muscari-Erdos presently has 52 dogs that are either working in service or are be-ing trained. She generally works with Ger-man Shepherds, Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers.

“Occasionally we’ll take smaller dogs, and even bigger dogs,” she said. “Right now we’re working with a Great Dane and a Nor-rbottenspets (a Swedish spitz dog).”

Muscari-Erdos and her crew of trainers and handlers work with puppies up to dogs that are four years of age, though some-times they will work with 5-year-olds. She said that it takes 16 to 18 months to proper-ly train a puppy for service work, and about six months to train older dogs.

Muscari-Erdos generally gets her dogs from all over Colorado and New Mexico. She recently drove to Albuquerque to pick up a dog that had been living in Roswell.

Among Muscari-Erdos’ best local con-nection is Dog House of Transitions, located in Lake George near Eleven-Mile Reservoir. Dog House of Transitions is operated by Christy Cooper, who rescues dogs that have been abused or neglected — or left home-less. She gets them healthy and teaches them basic obedience, and then she ships to Muscari-Erdos.

“She does the service training part of it,” Cooper said. “Candy is a wonderful partner

of mine and I just adore working with her.”Muscari-Erdos runs her business on her

property, located off County Line Road. She has several dedicated trainers.

“We have a wonderful team of trainers,” Muscari-Erdos said. “We have hearts for people who need service dogs to aid in ob-taining a normal life.

Every dog has a unique personality and disposition. Because of this, every dog needs to be trained differently. This requires unique trainers with a wide range of experi-ence, expertise and a wealth of knowledge.”

Potential service dog recipients fi ll out applications and go through a screening process so that they are matched with the right dog.

“Somebody with a family that is on the go might need a go-go dog,” Muscari-Erdos said. “Somebody with PTSD might need a dog that’s a little mellower.”

Warner Brothers advertising recently in-vited Muscari-Erdos and some of her staff to Denver for the premier of the movie “Max,” which is about a German shepherd that helped U.S. marines in Afghanistan re-

turn to the United States. She is scheduled to do an interview this week with Channel 9 news in Denver, an NMC affi liate.

“We always need fi nancial support and dog food,” Muscari-Erdos said. “Anyone who wants to help pay vet bills is also ap-preciated.”

You can get more information on Moun-tain High Rescue Dogs by going to its web-site at www.mtnhighservicedogs.com/home.html, emailing [email protected], or by calling 719-440-8282.

Candy Muscari-Erdos, right, and her German Shepherd Nathanael Athos, got practically everywhere together. Muscari-Erdos is the founder of Mountain High Service Dogs, located in Monument. Nathanael is her personal service dog. Photo by Danny Summers

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A heart for dogs and helping people

turn to the United States. She is scheduled to do an interview this week with Channel 9 news in Denver, an NMC affiliate.

“We always need financial support and dog food,” Muscari-Erdos said. “Anyone who wants to help pay vet bills is also ap-preciated.”

You can get more information on Moun-tain High Rescue Dogs by going to its web-site at www.mtnhighservicedogs.com/home.html, emailing [email protected], or by calling 719-440-8282.


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Kum & Go/Colorado Corn E85 promotions headed to Colorado Springs once again

Colorado Springs residents arrived in droves last time Kum & Go was offer-ing E85 fuel for just 85 cents per gallon, and they hope to see even more folks on Tuesday when the offer returns to the Springs.

This summer, Kum & Go, Colorado Corn and Front Range Energy are team-ing up to host a series of promotions to draw attention to Flex-Fuel Vehicles and ethanol, and increase public awareness of E85. After kicking off the summer in Erie on June 9, the event in Colorado Springs the following week saw local consumers purchase 2,350 gallons of E85 in just four hours. At our event in

Mead earlier this week, ABC 7 News in Denver came out to talk with consumers and representatives of the local biofuels industry.

Customers will be treated to E85 for just 85 cents per gallon, and represen-tatives of Kum & Go, Colorado Corn and Front Range Energy will be on site spreading the good word about the cleaner-burning, American-made bio-fuel. Customers will also have a chance to win giveaways at these promotions.

Future dates and locations for the E85 promotions are:

• July 14, Monument (1410 N. Cipri-ani)

Front Range Energy, an ethanol producer located in Windsor, is taking

part in the effort to promote this locally produced, environmentally friendly fuel, by supplying the ethanol for the events.

E85 is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, and is available for use in Flex-Fuel Vehicles. There are more than 200,000 Flex-Fuel Vehicles on the road in Colorado.

Colorado Springs Native American Inter-tribal Festival and Traditional Powwow to be held

Celebrate native history and culture at a one-day event on Saturday, July 18, at the Mortgage Solutions Financial (for-merly Freedom Financial Services) EXPO

Center, 3650 N. Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs. Experience native drums and dancers, native art and artisans, Aztec dancers, WWII Dine (Navajo) code talk-ers, live wolf and birds of prey exhibits, children’s activities, and plenty of native vendors and food. Admission is $4, with dancers and children 12 and younger admitted free. Event is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with grand entry at noon. No pets (except service animals) allowed. Bring a nonperishable food donation to feed the hungry. Cash prizes for dancers.

For more information, visit www.palmerdividehistory.org or www.OneNa-tionwt.org or call (719) 559-0525.

District 38 budget approved for 2015-16 School year School board passed budget during June 18 regular meeting By Danny Summers [email protected]

The Lewis-Palmer School Board of Ed-ucation unanimously approved the 2015-16 budget during its June 18 scheduled meeting.

District 38 Assistant Superintendent Cheryl Wangeman presented a detailed overview of the budget, highlighting trends in student funding and enroll-ment projections. She provided specific information about revenue sources and general fund expenditures.

“The district has an extensive budget-ing plan that is essentially conducted on a

year-round basis,” Wangeman said in her presentation. “Each year, the district de-velops a budget calendar to ensure major tasks are completed in the development and implementation of the budget. Ma-jor tasks include projecting funding and enrollment.

“Opportunity for community, DAAC, administrative and staff involvement in the process is accomplished via commu-nity hearings, presentations, school and administrative discussions.”

The board welcomed public comment, but nobody came forward.

Wangeman said that the primary goals of the budget are to maintain 2014-15 budgeted class sizes; absorb cost in-creases for health insurance and PERA for staff members; provide compensation increases in an effort to remain reason-ably competitive; allow principals to con-

tinue to hire highly experienced teachers; and include the addition of the Director of Technology position.

“The district holds adequate reserves to meet TABOR requirements, carryover approvals, encumbrances, unanticipated emergencies, and all other Board Reserve requirements,” Wangeman said.

Wangeman noted several trends: stu-dent funding was increased by $252 dol-lars per student to $6,919 or 3.8 percent over last school year; enrollment is pro-jected to be approximately equal to last year’s enrollment; and as the economy continues to improve at the national, state and local levels the district will con-tinue to monitor new housing develop-ments and family school choice trends.

She also addressed the tax burden on the community, citing that the property tax mill levy for 2015 is 49.677 mills, and

for 2016, the mill levy is project to be 48.229.

“This 1.448 mill decrease equates to a 2.9 percent reduction,” she said. “This is primarily due to a decrease in the Gen-eral Obligation Debt (GO Debt) mill of 5.5 percent and an increase in estimated as-sessed valuation of 4.6 percent.”

It is estimated that a homeowner with a home valued at $350,000 in 2016 will pay $1,344 for school district property taxes as compared to $1,384 in 2015.

“The district has been aggressive in re-funding GO Debt,” Wangeman said. “As a result, the district has provided savings to taxpayers since 2009 of $3.3 million.”

Wangeman’s PowerPoint presentation is posted on the BoardDocs website - with the June 18, 2015 Board meeting agenda at www.boarddocs.com/co/lewispalmer/Board.nsf/vpublic.

HAVE A STORY IDEA?Email Publisher and Editor Rob Carrigan at [email protected] or call 719-687-3006.


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Center, 3650 N. Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs. Experience native drums and dancers, native art and artisans, Aztec dancers, WWII Dine (Navajo) code talk-ers, live wolf and birds of prey exhibits, children’s activities, and plenty of native vendors and food. Admission is $4, with dancers and children 12 and younger admitted free. Event is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with grand entry at noon. No pets (except service animals) allowed. Bring a nonperishable food donation to feed the hungry. Cash prizes for dancers.

For more information, visit www.palmerdividehistory.org or www.OneNa-tionwt.org or call (719) 559-0525.

District 38 budget approved for 2015-16 School year for 2016, the mill levy is project to be 48.229.

“This 1.448 mill decrease equates to a 2.9 percent reduction,” she said. “This is primarily due to a decrease in the Gen-eral Obligation Debt (GO Debt) mill of 5.5 percent and an increase in estimated as-sessed valuation of 4.6 percent.”

It is estimated that a homeowner with a home valued at $350,000 in 2016 will pay $1,344 for school district property taxes as compared to $1,384 in 2015.

“The district has been aggressive in re-funding GO Debt,” Wangeman said. “As a result, the district has provided savings to taxpayers since 2009 of $3.3 million.”

Wangeman’s PowerPoint presentation is posted on the BoardDocs website - with the June 18, 2015 Board meeting agenda at www.boarddocs.com/co/lewispalmer/Board.nsf/vpublic.

THINGS TO DO EDITOR’S NOTE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send listings to [email protected]. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

July 8 to Aug. 12PAINTING CLASSES Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105, Palmer Lake, offers oil painting classes with Rikki Stiltner from 7-9:30 p.m. Wednesdays from July 8 to Aug. 12. Cost is $340 for six weeks. Call 719-481-0475 or go to www.TriLakesArts.org.

Through July 16DANCE CLASSES Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105, Palmer Lake, offers country line dance classes from 6-8 p.m. Thursdays from June 18 to July 16. Cost is $20 per class per person, of $70 for all four classes. Call 719-481-0475 or go to www.TriLakesArts.org.

July 17JAZZ CONCERT Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105, Palmer Lake, presents Dotsero, contem-porary jazz on the edge, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 17. Tickets cost $15-$20. Call 719-481-0475 or go to www.TriLakesArts.org.

July 22ART SUBMISSIONS The Pikes Peak Library

District Art Evaluation Committee will jury art for future one- to two-month individual shows. Interested artists should bring 5 representative pieces of their body of work in show-ready format (matted, framed, and wired for pho-tos, drawings, prints, etc.; wired for other 2D or 3D art). Submissions will be accepted from 9-11 a.m. Wednes-day, July 22 at the Tim Gill Center for Public Media, 315 E. Costilla St. Pick up submissions the same day from 3:30-5 p.m. Call Carol Brunk Harnish at 719-531-6333, x2332 or email [email protected].

Through July 31SUMMER READING The Pikes Peak Library District plans its annual summer reading program, “Every Hero Has a Story” (children’s) and “Unmask!” (teens) through Friday, July 31. Prizes and free programs are offered at all libraries in June and July. Register online at www.ppld.org/kids or stop by the library. A party to celebrate children’s summer reading is planned from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, July 28 at Palmer Lake Town Hall and Village Green, 22 Lower Glenway.

Aug. 15CONCERT TRI-LAKES Center for the Arts, 304 Highway 105, Palmer Lake, welcomes Peter Yarrow live in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15. Tickets cost $30-$45. Meet and greet available. Call 719-481-0475 or go to www.TriLakesArts.org.

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Count Pourtales, Penrose and � e BROADMOOR Before there was The BROADMOOR Resort,

there was The Broadmoor Casino and Hotel.And we have Count James de Pourtales to

thank for it.On July 1, 1891, Pourtales made good

on his promise from two years earlier and opened his Broadmoor Casino. Built on the east side of the present day lake, a hotel was later added.

Six years after the casino opened - July 19, 1897 - it burned down and was replaced within a year with a less-grand structure. The hotel was unharmed in the fi re.

Here is a quick history of how the area eventually transformed into the grand resort it is today.

In the 1860s, Burton C. Myers raised corn and wheat on 720 acres in the area of what would become the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club and The BROADMOOR at the base of Cheyenne Mountain. He used the corn for brooms which were sold in his store in Colorado City.

In the 1880s, Philadelphian William J. Wil-cox came to Colorado Springs to recover from tuberculosis and bought the Myers farm and an additional 800 acres. He started the Broad-moor Dairy Farm, where he was later joined by a partner, Prussian Count James Pourtales of Silesia, who made the venture a success.

In 1888, Count Pourtales started the Chey-enne Lake, Land and Improvement Company to plat and market his dream; “Broadmoor City.” He had a dam built at Cheyenne Creek to create Cheyenne Lake, which drained away time after time in 1888 and 1889 until Pourtales had the bottom lined with clay. Cheyenne Lake would be the focal point of his development.

In 1889, Count Pourtales combined all his land holdings, including the dairy farm, in the Broadmoor Land and Investment Company

and plats the 2,400 Broadmoor acres. As an incentive for peo-ple to buy his lots, he promised to build an elegant European-style casino.

The casino and hotel stayed in busi-ness for the next two decades, despite some tough eco-nomic times. During the Panic of 1893, Pourtales’ holdings went into receiver-ship. The casino did not close, but did not prosper.

In 1909, trustees of the Winfi eld Scott Stratton Estate pur-chased the Broadmoor-area land from the London and New York Investment Company. From 1913-15, the casino and hotel were leased to Harrison Ewing for a girls’ boarding and day school.

In 1914, Spencer Penrose of Philadelphia and Chester Alan Arthur II, son of the Presi-dent, built a clubhouse on Cheyenne Moun-tain designed after the gourmet, culinary Rab-bit Club of the Philadelphia elite. In January 1916, Spencer and his wife Julie purchased a sprawling Spanish-style villa near Pourtales’ Cheyenne Lake. It was called El Pomar, which is Spanish for the apple orchard in which it was built.

In April 1916, Penrose and his longtime partner C.M. MacNeill, who had tried unsuc-cessfully to purchase the Antlers Hotel for $125,000 controlling interest, got the option on the Broadmoor hotel site. They planned a million-dollar hotel, much fi ner than the

Antlers.According to Alexander Walker Clark in

his book “Colorado’s historic Hotels,” legends linger about what prompted Penrose to build The BROADMOOR. Some insist that he built it out of spite after the Antler’s management rebuked him for riding his horse into the hotel bar. It is also said that the little “a” in BROAD-MOOR was meant as an insult to the Antlers.

In May 1916, the names of the buyers of the 18-acre Broadmoor Hotel and Casino site, as well as 400 additional acres are made public: MacNeill, Penrose and capitalist A.E. Carlton. The selling price was $90,000 cash. The Stratton Estate agreed to build a reservoir in Cheyenne Canon to guarantee future water privileges. Frederick J. Sterner of New York was hired as the architect. He had designed the Antlers as well as the Greenbriar in West Virginia.

In the summer 1916, the casino was moved to a new foundation to serve as the Golf Club. Famous golf-course designer Donald Ross began work on the BROADMOOR links. The old hotel became the Colonial Club, which was razed in 1961.

In September 1916, Sterner was dismissed as architect. Penrose chose Warren and Wet-more of New York, architects for Grand Cen-tral Station and the Biltmore and Ritz-Carlton hotels in New York City. C. L. Wetmore shared the ousted Sterner’s grand panorama of an Italian-style building of pink stucco, built east of the lake and featuring arches and a balus-trade. Penrose bought 800-900 more acres of land, including the “horns” (projecting rocks at the summit) of Cheyenne Mountain. Landscape architects, the Olmstead Brothers of Brookline, Mass., who had designed Central Park, were hired.

Just trying to tell stories and be round “Everything an Indian does is in a circle,

and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.”

__ Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa)

Certainly newspapering and telling stories is a circular process. Back in 2007, when I wrote (what I thought at the time) was prob-ably my last column for a certain newspaper, I mentioned the basic truth that, in communi-ties like these, a person never runs out of good stories to tell.

Having spent so many years with the same newspaper company, many of them in the Teller County and Monument areas, I have even acquired a few stories of my own.

I recall spending more than $700 one week to clear snow from the parking lot in Monu-ment (when we were in the building that now houses Expectations Salon) after the October 97 blizzard.

Jeremy Bangs and I logged a lot of hours in those days addressing Tribunes by hand and prepping bags for the mail.

One of the funniest newspaper tales I have ever heard involved having to face the crazed meanness in the eyes of a publisher who had just fi gured out he only has fl ats for 34 pages of a 36-page paper when he arrived at the offsite printing facility. I guess that is what happens when rushed and, in haste, you throw completed fl ats in the back of the pickup where they can be sucked out a crack between the endgate and the topper latch on the way to the printer.

Not everyone knew of the secret escape hatch through the closet in the editor’s offi ce (and out to the back door) in the stucco house on the corner. I never had an opportunity use it, but still found it comforting in case of an irate advertiser or an enraged reader.

I also recall watching out the front window of the Ute Pass Courier newspaper offi ce in Woodland Park, as the police, including local city and county offi cers, and Bureau of Alco-hol, Tobacco and Firearms, FBI and federal marshals, arrested members of the Texas Seven in the Coachlight mobile home park directly to the east of us.

“No information at this time,” from emer-gency personnel, was the only explanation offered for the six or seven ambulances and various police cars lined up in our parking lot for a full twenty minutes before they could tell us what was going on.

It was another media circus, but perhaps more dangerous one to staff and the com-munity, when the Hayman Fire burned out

of control for three intense weeks in June of 2002. For members of our staff at the news-paper, the weeks of stress related to intense long-term sustained coverage of a big story was compounded by whether or not their house, or place of employment, or both might burn. And all their friends and neigh-bors were in a similar predicament.

But among the “big stories,” was always

that small but important thread that needed to be pulled for goodness sake.

It seems to me like I followed around in Ernest Chapin Gard’s footsteps – just about 100 years after he fi rst made his appearance in Colorado. I published the Cripple Creek Gold Rush, which was a direct descendent of Gard’s Cripple Creek Crusher. I managed the Tri-Lakes Tribune in Monument and the Palmer Lake area, a century after Gard’s Palmer Lake Herald and Monument Register. I had worked at papers that covered Mono County in California that had ties, and had a friend that edited the paper in Gardnerville, Nevada with links to Gard. All were temporary haunts of the bombastic journalist, newspaper publish-er, and mining promoter. For a while there, I thought there was some sort of weird Ju-Ju between me and the guy, 100-years-displaced.

Then I fi gured out that this fellow started or promoted a paper in most every promising mining camp in the West.

“E. Chapin Guard was at Palmer Lake much of the time between 1888 and 1895,” wrote my friend Daniel W. Edwards in a paper for the Palmer Lake Historical Society in July of 2010. Edwards recently retired from the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. and authored the book Dr. William Finely Thompson: Dental Surgeon and Founder of Palmer Lake.

“He published Palmer Lake’s fi rst newspa-per, served on the fi rst town council, was town attorney, a justice of the peace, fi led claims to local mining properties, and wrote a booklet boosting Palmer Lake. Yet, being a restless and ambitious man, Gard could not stay put for long. He established, published, or edited 11 Colorado newspapers during his career, and his articles appeared in at least six others. As a roving journalist and newspaper editor

in Colorado, Gard often resorted to poetry, humor, and sarcasm in his writings and fully exercised his right to freedom of the press. He did contribute to the dialog of democracy by criticizing public offi cials, but his unre-strained enthusiasm and often bombastic, intemperate rhetoric also provoked strong opposition. Many newspapers of that era practiced a similar style of journalism.”

The Mountain Democrat of Placerville, California, had this to say about E.C. Gard, near the end of his colorful career in its June 4, 1926 edition.

“Thirty years ago, when new mining camps were constantly springing up in the state of Colorado, each new mining camp had a newspaper that boosted everything from the skies above to what was expected to be found thousands of feet underground, and in most cases the name of the editor was E. Chapin Gard. There were two things that Gard could do more of and do better than anyone else in camp, one was write boost articles and the other was to drink good whiskey. He did both constantly and consistently, and helped many men become wealthy but never saved any money himself …

E. Chapin Gard, still boosting, with more pep than half the men we meet every day, who has probably been compelled to forget his age in order not to become old, an example of what it means to always look on the bright side, to look for sunshine instead of clouds, to side-step gloom and cultivate happiness and contentment.”

Of course Gard made enemies, often with his own rhetoric.

“Don’t send your pennies to India,” Gard is quoted in the Pagosa Springs News on July 1, 1898. “The Hottentot can get along for awhile without your contributions … We need mis-sionaries and money and tornadoes of prayers and rivers of tears to civilize the heathens in darkest America. Turn your gospel machines loose on Denver’s gates of Hell. Batter down the stone walls of Capitol Hill and see Sa-tan and his imps scamper. Go into the big department stores and offi ces, where physi-cal serfdom cringes and moral ruin crouches and weeps, and rescue the perishing. Lift the mask from some of our courts and begin to get to your work of salvation as rapidly and vigorously as possible. Pry up a few boards under the altar in front of some of our pulpits and see if we don’t need several tons of saving grace right here in Colorado.”

E. Chapin Gard, was just getting warmed up. And Rob Carrigan is just circling around behind him.


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Grades are everything? “It’s funny how a B plus made me want

to cry in middle school, not want to come home in high school, and now has me cel-ebrating in college.”

I could not contain my laughter after hearing my friend say this during fi nal exams this past spring; the words rang especially true as I had just completed fi ve fi nals and was praying that my professors were in a good mood when they graded my papers and projects. In the past year, with the knowledge I have gained about fi lmmak-ing, time management, and international cuisine, I have also learned (the hard way) that the measuring stick for my personal success in college is not as concrete as a simple grade.

Like many of the highly competitive students that attend Palmer Ridge or Lewis-Palmer – not to mention the thousands of high-achieving students across the globe – I had well above a 4.0 GPA in high school and received straight A’s throughout my high school career.

As such, the 3.77 GPA at the end of my fi rst year in college might appear to be a decline in performance; however, the expo-nential personal, academic, emotional and spiritual growth that I have achieved in the past year is not immediately evident from the series of numbers calculated to be my GPA.

The assignments in class stretched me to new limits, as I had to fi gure out how to become comfortable with being uncomfort-able. On my own, I never would have tried to make a short fi lm without using music (got a B-plus in that class) or attempt a 10-page research paper (got an A-minus in that class) or speak only Spanish for extended periods of time during the week. Although these ex-amples may seem insignifi cant in the grand scheme of things, each of these accomplish-ments are ones that I never would have achieved unless someone challenged me to do so. In turn, these small milestones have in fact become stepping-stones that have given me the confi dence to complete even more challenging goals.

More college freshmen comment about how their high schools did not truly prepare them for college. On one hand, I certainly agree. In general, the structured learning in high school curriculums place too great of an emphasis on class rankings, grades, and AP classes, while often neglecting teaching students how to actually apply necessary life and study skills such as balance and time management outside of the classroom.

Although I took my fair share of AP and honors classes, I never experienced or expected the 100 to 150 pages a week of reading that was needed to stay on top of my classes or imagined that my work ethic that produced A’s in high school would not do the same in college. Moreover, I had never been taught to look outside of the small

bubble that I was living in. My peers in college from Califor-nia, China, Nigeria, Virginia, Texas, India, Sweden, and every other corner of the globe were doing incredible things (publishing novels, directing feature fi lms, and starting companies, etc.) and were bringing their abilities and aptitude with them. I never re-alized that these were in fact the students

I was actually competing against, not just those I sat in class with in Monument.

However, it saddens me to hear some fi rst year college students state how their teachers simply did not push them past a basic level of understanding or memorizing concepts. In my four years at Palmer Ridge High School, I was fortunate enough to have teachers who did challenge me to explore opportunities outside of the traditional classroom, which would continue to deepen my learning.

Although they did not directly prepare me to compete with the international pool of students in the college application process, my teachers gave me the skills to run my own race. They were always the ones challenging me to excel beyond the four walls of the classroom whether it was participating in history day, designing an independent study, or engaging in outside reading.

Even though college required me to do more (way more) than I thought possible, my high school teachers always taught me to embrace the challenge and go the extra mile. I am so thankful for the constant encouragement and support they have provided over the years and always enjoy going back to visit them. During our visits, I usually notice how they are not surprised by any of the stories I tell … they never doubted (even when I did) that I had the ability and potential to face those challenges, meet those goals, and embrace those experiences.

Special thanks to Mr. Mark Ewig, Ms. Debra Breazzano, Mrs. Kathleen Raphael, and Ms. Pam Howard who are my “Fantastic Four” teachers that undoubtedly helped to shape my love for and pursuit of knowledge.

Tayanna Todd is currently in her second year at the University of Southern California where she is double-majoring in fi lm and television production and Spanish language and culture. She is the video producer for Lewis-Palmer School District 38 and a proud graduate of the Palmer Ridge High School class of 2014.


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Brett and his family moved to Colorado Springs in 1998. He attended District 38 schools, graduating from Lewis-Palmer High School this May. Baseball was Brett’s life and his greatest passion. He was on Tri-Lakes Little League teams throughout his childhood, played at LPHS, and competed the past two years with Colorado Baseball Academy. Brett

pitched his last game on June 20th, resulting in a “W” with no earned runs! He was looking forward to attending Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan this fall on a baseball scholarship.

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and the It’s a Grind Coffee Group.

Brett was also very patriotic. His bedroom was decorated with flags and red, white, and blue decor and he planned to join the military to serve and protect the country he loved.

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In May 1917, the $900,000 bid of James Stewart and Company of New York was accepted and work began on the hotel building, a tunnel and one service building. Penrose’s boyhood friend, fellow Philadel-phian Charles L. Tutt Jr., was the on-site eyes and ears of the owners.

On June 29, 1918, the formal opening of The BROADMOOR occurred. It was called “the most beautiful hotel in America.” The total cost was over two million dollars. James M. Barnes was brought in as the fi rst golf professional.

In 1919, Penrose actively fought Prohibi-tion. Before the Volstead act went into effect he bought large amounts of quality wine and liquor and stored them in train freight cars, the basement of his home and in the hotel. His wine and liquor cellar opened fi rst in 1933 when Prohibition is repealed.

In 1921, the fi rst BROADMOOR Invita-tion Golf Tournament was held, and in 1925 Penrose purchased and modernized the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, which had been constructed in 1890.

In 1926, world heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, who had worked as a miner in Cripple Creek and Victor, came to The BROADMOOR to train for a fi ght with Gene Tunney.

In 1928, a polo fi eld and grandstand were built near the BROADMOOR stables west of the hotel.

In 1930, the BROADMOOR Riding Arena was built on the west shore of Cheyenne Lake.

On Jan. 1, 1938, the BROADMOOR Ice Palace (renamed the Broadmoor World Arena in 1961) was opened in the renovated riding arena. Until it was razed in April 1994, the ice area is the training ground for world and Olympic champions as well as the site of hockey games, ice shows, and curling events, fi ve World Figure Skating champion-ships, six U.S. Figure Skating championships and three National Sports Festivals.

In 1938: Will Rogers Stadium was built beside the Riding Arena/World Arena on the west side of Cheyenne Lake. It was the home to the Roundup, which began in 1920 as a combination rodeo and demonstration of Native American dances and ceremonies. The stadium, which had also been the site of concerts as well as home to the Colorado Springs Rodeo, was renamed for Spencer Penrose after his death. Penrose Stadium was razed in the 1970s to make way for BROADMOOR West. Penrose Equestrian Center was dedicated in 1974 in Bear Creek Park.

On Dec. 7, 1939, Penrose died and was buried at the Will Rogers Shrine on Chey-enne Mountain.

Join me next week for a look into the interesting lives of more Pourtales family members.

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40 YEARS AGO

The name change for Palmer Lake-Monument-Woodmoor News became effective July 1, 1975. It is now called Tri-Lakes Tribune. Before the “masthead” is published the new name has to start July 1 and run a consecutive two weeks and be sent to Washington D.C. (U.S. Postal Service) for approval. There will be a $15 fee if it is approved. George Kobolt, editor, asks for suggestions as to historic and geographic items to be incorporated in the “masthead.” The name change will continue and when approved, the “mast-head” will be published.

• • •

Vesper services for the Church at Woodmoor will begin July 6 along the east banks of Lake Woodmoor, Monu-ment. The fi rst service will be at 6 p.m. After that the services will start at 7 p.m. Outdoor services will go until Aug. 10. If inclement weather, the service will be at the Barn Community Center.

• • •

The Pikes Peak Area Council of Gov-ernments meeting will be Wednesday, July 9, at 8:30 p.m.

• • •

The Mount Herman Jaycees are presenting “fun for all movie programs.” Movies will be on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. at the old junior high. There are cartoons included with each movie. The movies are:

July 10 — “Great Locomotive Chase,” July 17 —”Sign of Zorro,” July 24 — “Cap-tains Courageous,” July 31 — “Ring of Bright Red Water,” Aug. 7 — “Clarence the Cross Eyed Lion,” Aug. 14 — “Story of Robin Hood,” and Aug. 21 — “The Absent Minded Professor.” Admission is 65 cents. Refreshments are available at

reasonable prices.

• • •

Sunday July 13 at 7:30 p.m. “The Gospel Road” will be shown at Little Log Church. The movie was made in Israel and produced by Billy Graham Film Ministry. Johnny Cash is narrator and singer in the fi lm. Admission is free but a free-will offering will be taken.

• • •

Mirian McDonough will present story hour at Palmer Lake Community Library Thursday, June 10. Mirian will tell a real Indian story and stories of today. She will show covered-wagon dolls and furniture which crossed the plains to Colorado in 1871.

• • •

The Mint is changing the design on the backs of three coins in honor of bi-centennial. Independence Hall is on the back of the half dollar and the moon and Liberty Bell on the dollar reverse.

• • •

The Church at Woodmoor held its second anniversary. The theological position of the church is “Jesus Christ is Lord.” Donations given were related to the number of “years of life” in a fam-ily group. The money will be used for outreach projects.

• • •

The Monument Hill Sertoma Club has been awarded the Sertoma Interna-tional Wilshire Achievement Award as outstanding fi rst year Sertoma Club in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The award is based on outstanding achievement in the community.

— Compiled by Linda Case

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Local man appeals to Tri-Lakes communityLong-time Palmer Lake resident in Nepal during April and May earthquakesBy Danny [email protected]

Dan Edwards first visited Nepal in 1966 when he served in the Peace Corps. He’s made a dozen or so trips to the country over the years, but none were filled with as much drama as the “vacation” he took there in April.

Edwards, a Palmer Lake resident, flew to Nepal on April 18 and proceeded to visit with old friends and students he had taught over his 49 years of visiting and living in the country He had plans to visit Tibet during his seven-week stay. He never made it there.

On April 25, at 11:56 a.m. Nepal time, Ed-wards was on the third floor of a building visit-ing with a former student when his world was rocked by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. The devastation was widespread as 8,800 people were killed, and another 23,000 were injured. It was the worst natural disaster to strike Ne-pal since the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake.

The April earthquake triggered an ava-lanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 19, making April 25, 2015, the deadliest day on the mountain in history. The earthquake trig-gered another huge avalanche in the Lang-tang Valley, where 250 people were reported missing.

Edwards walked the streets of the towns and villages and saw that hundreds of thou-sands of people were made homeless with entire villages flattened across many districts of the country.

Continued aftershocks occurred through-out Nepal within 15 to 20 minute intervals of the first quake, with one shock reaching a magnitude of 6.7 on April 26, and a 7.3 mag-nitude quake on May 12.

“When the aftershocks get to be 6.7 and 7.3 I call them earthquakes,” said Edwards, who has more than 8,000 books written on Nepal. “Most of the buildings and houses in Nepal are not made to withstand earthquakes of this magnitude, so the devastation is tre-mendous.”

Edwards remained in Nepal through his scheduled departure date of June 6. In the weeks that followed the earthquakes he took hundreds of photos and leaned on friends to try and raise money for the relief effort. He continued to do so after he returned to Palm-er Lake, raising $8,000 for the remote village of Sama.

Now he is appealing to the Tri-Lakes com-munity to give even more.

On July 14, the “Nepal Earthquake Relief

Project, a program to benefit the village of Sama, will take place at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts in Palmer Lake . The event begins with a power point presentation by Edwards, followed by a Q and A. Admission to the event is free. Donations are gratefully accepted af-ter the program. A silent auction will also be held.

“We’ve put feelers out for artists to donate to the silent auction,” said Michael Maddox, the executive director of the TLCA. “One hun-dred percent of the proceeds will go to Nepal.”

Edwards first took a liking to Sama in 2013. Located at 11,578 feet in the Nepal Himala-yas, he stayed with a village school teacher, Dawa Norbu.

In early May of this year, Edwards was able to meet Norbu, who had been evacu-ated from Sama by helicopter, in the capital of Kathmandu and get a first-hand account of the current conditions at Sama. Although there were few fatalities in the village, 47 houses had collapsed, the direct foot trail to Sama was blocked by landslides, and the power line was down. The coming rains and snows of the monsoon season threatened to isolate Sama even more and make delivery of essential foodstuffs and building materials

more difficult, if not impossible.Reaching out from Kathmandu by email

to friends and relatives in the United States, Edwards was able to raise enough money so that Norbu could purchase a large amount of rice, lentils, cooking oil and tarps, which were transported by truck, jeep, and finally by 22 mules over a 16,900-foot pass to reach Sama. The tarps proved to offer little protec-tion against the winds and snowstorms in the area, so Edwards secured more funds, and Norbu ordered some large waterproof tents.

“These tents are being stitched in Nepal, and when finished and transported to Sama, will provide shelter for up to 200 people,” Edwards said. “This will not take care of all the homeless, nor is it certain that Sama’s food stocks will be adequate through the fall months.

“Barley and potatoes are the only local crops, and the governments of Nepal and China have not agreed to open the nearby pass into Tibet to allow yak caravans to bring food supplies into Sama over a trade route that has been utilized in previous years.”

Edwards would like to match the $8,000 he has already raised through his event at the TLCA. He believes that once people see for

themselves the scale of the natural disaster that has struck Nepal, and find out just where and how their contributions will be put to good use, many will step forward to support the people of Sama through a donation of $10 or $20 or more.

The population of the Sama area is about 2,100. Its people practice Tibetan Buddhism. Some have made trips to Tibet and India, but probably none has reached a Western coun-try. The people of Sama inhabit a remote corner of Nepal carrying on a uniquely tradi-tional way of life. There is a school in the vil-lage but no other government presence. Until the earthquake, many foreign trekkers and mountaineers passed through Sama in the spring and fall, but unless one could speak Tibetan, or met Norbu who knows English, interaction with the local populace was dif-ficult.

For more information about Nepal and its earthquakes, or to contribute by mail, or to request Dan to give a program about Ne-pal’s earthquake to your neighbors or orga-nization, you may contact him at: Dan Ed-wards, PO Box 161, Palmer Lake, CO 80133, or [email protected], 719-481-2461.

You can also contact the TLCA at 719-481-0475.

Tens of thousands of building crumbled in Nepal when a major earthquake hit the country on April 25. Nearly 9,000 people were killed and another 23,000 were injured. Palmer Lake resident Dan Edwards was there when the earthquake happened is organizing a Nepal earthquake relief e�ort that will take place July 14 at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts. Photo by Dan Edwards

Palmer Lake resident Dan Edwards will give a power point presentation at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts on July 14 in an e�ort to raise money for earthquake victims in Nepal. Edwards is hoping to match the $8,000 he has already raised through friends. Edwards �rst went to Nepal in 1966 as a member of the Peace Corps and has vicited the country about a dozen times over the years. Edwards has authored several books on Palmer Lake. He is seen here looking through old issues of the Tri-Lakes Tribune. He lives in a home in Glen Park that was built by his grandfather in 1901. Photo by Danny SummersThousands of residents of Nepal were left homeless after a major earthquake hit the country on April 25. Palmer Lake

resident Dan Edwards was in Nepal when the earthquake hit and is organizing a relief e�ort July 14 at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts. Photo by Dan Edwards


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Ethan Hollenbach of Monu-ment was recently installed as the upcoming 2015 fall semester cadet vice wing commander at the University of Colorado-Boulder. As cadet vice commander, Cadet Col. Hollenbach will assist the

cadet wing commander in lead-ing and overseeing the 120 cadets of Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment 105 “Thunderchiefs.” Detachment 105 is the seventh-largest (of 145) detachments nationwide. As a full ROTC schol-arship recipient, Hollenbach is majoring in aerospace engineer-

ing, earned Dean’s List honors every semester, and plans to graduate and be commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force in 2017. Hollenbach graduat-ed from Lewis-Palmer High School in 2012. He is the son of David and Dana Hollenbach of Monument.

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Flying Horse residents Duane Jensen, left, and his wife, Linda, spent part of their afternoon on June 25 hitting golf balls on the practice range at King’s Deer Golf Club. King’s Deer reopened May 3, 2014, three months after it fell in bankruptcy. Photo by Danny Summers

Enthusiastic crowd welcomes � rst Concert in the Park More to follow in downtown Monument’s Limbach Park Sta� report

Wirewood Station kicked off the inaugral show for a large, enthusiastic crowd Wednes-day, June 24, for the 2015 Concerts in the Park series. The Concerts in the Park Series is held in Limbach Park in downtown Monument and promises more fun every Wednesday in July.

“Bring your chairs and enjoy music, food and fun for the whole family,” said Chamber Executive Director Terri Hayes.

July 1 — Bud Gordon Sextet

The group will be playing original music, along with jazz classics by composers as di-verse as Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Dorham, Bill Mays, Bobby Shew, Dave Holland, Charles Mingus and more. Mark Rose on saxophones and fl ute, Phil Allen on valve trombone, Brad Bietry on piano, Jason Crowe on contrabass, Britt Ciampa on percussion, Bud Gordon on trumpet and fl ugelhorn and maybe clave.

July 8 — HammerstadtHammerstadt is a four-piece electric en-

semble dedicated to the performance of blues, rock, jazz and fusion music. The sonic similarities can be likened to the sounds of Jeff Beck, Santana, Allman Brothers, Dixie Dregs and Larry Carlton as well as many oth-ers.

Hammerstadt is an instrumental group focused on the performance of original mu-sic but also known for their arrangements of classic songs from a variety of genres.

The group is comprised of, Wayne Ham-merstadt — guitars, Paul Haller — keyboards, and Dewey Steele — drums.

July 15 — R-V-Zoo & the Sugar Spun El-ephant Band

Members: Rvzoo (formerly known as Dave Arvizu), Dan Nelson, Wayne Hammer-stadt, John Scott Bown, Paul Haller. Genre: Indie Music. Hometown: Colorado Springs

July 22 — The Inman Brothers BandBased out of Colorado Springs and

founded in the late ‘70s, The Inman Brothers Band is a combination of some of the most

seasoned musicians in the state. The Inman Brothers Band has shared the stage with such national acts as Kansas, BTO, Firefall, The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Night Ranger, Eddie Money, Steppenwolf and many others. From grandstands at the state fair to music festi-vals up and down the front range, The Inman Brothers Band is a Colorado favorite.

July 29 — Jody AdamsJody Adams is a journeyman-instrumen-

talist and singer-songwriter with a rich and wholesome resume. His ventures into acous-tic, string, folk, bluegrass, gospel, acoustic-country, old-time, Irish-Celtic, Americana and rural-roots music have afforded listeners a one-of-a-kind presentation for nearly two decades now.

WireWood Station kicked the concert series o� . Photos by Rob Carrigan The inaugural show for the 2015 Concerts in the Park series was a big hit for music lovers of all ages.


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King’s Deer Golf Club, a 197.3 acre links course in Monument, seems to be thriving 14 months after being given life support.

The course reopened on May 3, 2014, to the delight of many Tri-Lakes area resi-dents. It has experienced a steady flow of customers, and the course is greener than ever.

“It’s a wonderful course, beautifully manicured, well maintained; it’s just a great links course,” said Flying Horse resident Duane Jensen, who was at the driving range on June 25 with his wife Linda. “This is the best driving arrange around, with the chip-ping and the putting. We try to come out

here two to three times a week.”The Jensens regularly play Patty Jewett

Golf Course in Colorado Springs, but they say that course pales in comparison to King’s Deer.

“There’s no comparison,” Linda Jensen said. “The views here are breathtaking and you have real grass on the driving range.”

King’s Deer opened in 1999 as the cen-terpiece of the upscale King’s Deer develop-ment. There are 338 homes on 531 lots built along the Palmer Divide.

But in February 2014 golfers arrived at the course to find a note on the front door that read “Closed until further notice.” It was soon learned that Nebraska-Based Ex-change Bank foreclosed on the former own-ers.

Almond Golf LLC, a company created by King’s Deer resident Doug Almond and his father, Larry Almond, stepped in and acquired the property out of receivership in April 2014. Larry Almond heads a real estate

development company in the Charlotte, N.C., area, and owns several golf courses.

Doug Almond and his wife, Maria, bought a six-bedroom home in King’s Deer in 2013 for $850,000, according to El Paso County court records. He is the manager of several call centers.

“Our company, Almond Golf LLC, is a Colorado company that is committed to de-velop King’s Deer Golf Course into a world-class public course,” Doug Almond said in an email.

“Our long term goal is to be the premier public golf course in our state that will at-tract local and national events that will

bring value to our community.”Jeff Kelly is the club’s general manager,

and Nate Vincent is the head pro.King’s Deer has some great twilight and

super twilight packages available this sum-mer. After 2 p.m. on the weekdays the rate for nine holes is $24 with a cart, and $42 for 18 holes. On the weekend it goes to $27 for nine, and $42 with a cart.

The everyday cost starting at 4 p.m. is $18 for nine with a cart, and $25 for 18 with a cart. Some specials even include free range balls.

Flying Horse residents Duane Jensen, left, and his wife, Linda, spent part of their afternoon on June 25 hitting golf balls on the practice range at King’s Deer Golf Club. King’s Deer reopened May 3, 2014, three months after it fell in bankruptcy. Photo by Danny Summers


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Rhys Millen wins Hill Climb in electric carMillen’s victory is the �rst-ever of its kind in the worldBy Danny [email protected]

For the first time in the 99-year history of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb an electric car won the overall championship.

New Zealand native Rhys Millen, who makes his home in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., won with a blistering time of 9 min-utes, 07.222 seconds during the 93rd run-ning of the event on June 28.

Millen averaged 78.944 mph up the 12.42

course that featured 156 winding turns and ends at 14,110-feet. He hit top speeds of more than 170 mph on straight-aways at Picnic Grounds, Bottomless Pit, Ragged Edge, 19-mile and Devil’s Playground.

By winning America’s second-oldest auto sports race, Millen became the first driver in any global event to win in an elec-tric car that bettered a field that included traditional internal-combustion engines.

Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima, of Japan, also racing an electric modified car, fin-ished second overall (9:32.401).

Paul Dallenbach of Basalt was won the famed Open Wheel Class and was third overall with a time of 9:36.496.

Next up was Jeff Zwart in the Time At-tack 1 Class (9:46.243). The only other cars

to crack the once elusive 10-minute barrier were also from the Open Wheel class; Spen-cer Steele (9:53.494) of Denver and Clint Vahsholtz (9:55.479) of Woodland Park.

The fastest motorcycle time was turned in by Jeffrey Tigert of Torrance, Calif., who reached the summit in 10:02.735 aboard as 1200cc Honda.

As is typical for the race, the road and weather conditions played roles in how drivers and riders were able to attack the course. Drivers talked about the slick con-ditions, which they said was a product of warm temperatures that caused the pave-ment to radiate heat. Because of that, the hot pavement dried the surrounding gravel, which in turn allowed sand to blow onto the road.

“In the days leading up to the race you adjust the car and try to get a good time,” Vahsholtz said. “On race it’s a driver’s ad-justment. You want to keep the car tight, but you also want to make sure you reach the top safely.”

Millen felt he could have turned in a fast-er time, but his Drive eO car lost a rear mo-tor pack halfway through the race and had to finish at 50 percent of its power.

Tajima, who has won seven overall championships, said his brakes failed near the summit.

By mid-afternoon, lighting, thunder and hail caused the race to be delayed for more than an hour.

New Zealand native Rhys Millen won the 93rd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 28. Millen raced to the top in his electric car in 9 minutes, 07.222 seconds. Photo courtesy of Pikes Peak Hill Climb

Tri-Lakes racers represented in Hill ClimbMonument’s Christopher Lennon won the Vintage Class in Porsche

By Danny [email protected]

Monument’s Christopher Lennon took home a class championship during the 93rd running of the Pikes Peak In-ternational Hill Climb on June 28.

Lennon, racing a Porsche, won the Vintage Class with a time 11 minutes, 37.969. The only other competitor in the class, Shannon Ivey of Rogers, Minn., failed to complete the race.

Dan Elders of Palmer Lake finished 12th in the Pikes

Peak Middleweight (750cc) motorcycle class with a time of 12:03.811.

Monument’s Rob Boileau made his debut in the Hill Climb in the Time Attack 2 Class, but did not finish the race.

Doug Chestnutt of Douglas County raced in the Pikes Peak Lightweight Class and finished 14th out of 15 riders with a time of 13:32.194.


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Rhys Millen wins Hill Climb in electric car “In the days leading up to the race you

adjust the car and try to get a good time,” Vahsholtz said. “On race it’s a driver’s ad-justment. You want to keep the car tight, but you also want to make sure you reach the top safely.”

Millen felt he could have turned in a fast-er time, but his Drive eO car lost a rear mo-tor pack halfway through the race and had to fi nish at 50 percent of its power.

Tajima, who has won seven overall championships, said his brakes failed near the summit.

By mid-afternoon, lighting, thunder and hail caused the race to be delayed for more than an hour.

Tri-Lakes racers represented in Hill Climb Peak Middleweight (750cc) motorcycle class with a time of 12:03.811.

Monument’s Rob Boileau made his debut in the Hill Climb in the Time Attack 2 Class, but did not fi nish the race.

Doug Chestnutt of Douglas County raced in the Pikes Peak Lightweight Class and fi nished 14th out of 15 riders with a time of 13:32.194.

Motorcyclist dies during Pikes Peak Hill Climb practice run Carlton Sorensen, 39, becomes sixth competitor to die during Hill Climb’s 99-year history By Danny Summers [email protected]

Three days before the 93rd running of the Pikes Peak In-ternational Hill Climb, a racer died during a practice run.

Carlton Sorensen, 39, lost control of his motorcycle and fl ew off a cliff near the summit of the 14,110-foot mountain on June 25.

Sorensen lived in Centennial and was participating in his third Hill Climb. He previously raced in 2012 and 2014.

Sorensen’s death occurred several hours before the an-nual Media Day, where racers, Hill Climb offi cials and pro-moters gathered for what is usually a festive event. Tom Os-borne, Chairman of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Board of Directors held a moment of silence during the news conference at the Penrose Heritage Museum.

“It’s a very sad day for the family of Carl Sorensen and the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Board of Directors and all the riders and drivers,” Osborne said.

Emergency crews rushed to the scene where Sorensen went off the mountain. Practice runs were stopped for the rest of the day. Fellow racer Joe Prussiano had just fi nished his run a few minutes before the accident. The accident happened on a stretch of highway in an area known as Dev-ils Playground. Motorcycle riders can reach speeds in ex-cess of 130 mph during that straightaway.

The Sorensen family released a joint statement with the Hill Climb: “(Carlton) will be remembered as a loving hus-band, father, son, brother, and friend with a tremendous sense of humor and a passion for racing.”

While emergency crews were on the scene, a storm moved across the summit. Medical personnel had to evalu-ate six people after a vehicle was struck by lightning. One person was treated at the scene.

Sorensen is the sixth competitor to die in Hill Climb his-

tory. Motorcycle racer Bobby Goodin, 54, died during last year’s race after losing control of his bike and crashing just after crossing the fi nish line.

“Throughout the 92 years that this unique race has been conducted on `America’s Mountain,’ we have experienced the ultimate joy in triumph, the disappointment of failure and now the unexpected heartbreak of the loss of a com-petitor,” Hill Climb race offi cials said in a statement. “We mourn the tragic death of Carlton, and he will be in all of our hearts this Sunday for the 93rd `Race to the Clouds.’”

Motorcyclist Carlton Sorensen, 39, died during his practice run June 25 at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Photo courtesy of Carlton Sorensen family

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Public Notice WOODMOOR WSD 2015 Drinking Water Quality Report

For Calendar Year 2014

Public Water System ID: CO0121950Esta es información importante. Si no la pueden leer, necesitan que alguien se la traduzca.

We are pleased to present to you this year’s water quality report. Our constant goal is to provide you with a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. Please contact Lance Nielsen at 719-488-2525 Ext 17 with any questions about the Drinking Consumer Confidence Rule (CCR) or for public participation op-portunities that may affect the water quality.

General Information

All drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791) or by visiting http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants.

Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immunocompromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV-AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk of infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. For more information about con-taminants and potential health effects, or to receive a copy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by Cryptosporidium and microbiological contaminants call the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at (1-800-426-4791).

The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity. Contaminants that may be present in source water include:

•Microbial contaminants: viruses and bacteria that may come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations, and wildlife.•Inorganic contaminants: salts and metals, which can be naturally-occurring or result from urban stormwater runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining, or farming.•Pesticides and herbicides: may come from a variety of sources, such as agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and residential uses.•Radioactive contaminants: can be naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities.•Organic chemical contaminants: including synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are byproducts of industrial processes and petroleum production, and also may come from gas stations, urban storm water runoff, and septic systems.

In order to ensure that tap water is safe to drink, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment prescribes regulations limiting the amount of certain contaminants in water provided by public water systems. The Food and Drug Administration regulations establish limits for contaminants in bottled water that must provide the same protection for public health.

Lead in Drinking Water

If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems (especially for pregnant women and young children). It is possible that lead levels at your home may be higher than other homes in the community as a result of materials used in your home’s plumbing. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. Additional information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791) or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Source Water Assessment and Protection (SWAP)

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has provided us with a Source Water Assessment Report for our water supply. For general informa-tion or to obtain a copy of the report please visit http://wqcdcompliance.com/ccr. The report is located under “Source Water Assessment Reports”, and then “As-sessment Report by County”. Select EL PASO County and find 121950; WOODMOOR WSD or by contacting Randy Gillette at 719-488-2525. The Source Water Assessment Report provides a screening-level evaluation of potential contamination that could occur. It does not mean that the contamination has or will occur. We can use this information to evaluate the need to improve our current water treatment capabilities and prepare for future contamination threats. This can help us ensure that quality finished water is delivered to your homes. In addition, the source water assessment results provide a starting point for developing a source water protection plan. Potential sources of contamination in our source water area are listed on the next page.

Please contact us to learn more about what you can do to help protect your drinking water sources, any questions about the Drinking Water Consumer Confi-dence Report, to learn more about our system, or to attend scheduled public meetings. We want you, our valued customers, to be informed about the services we provide and the quality water we deliver to you every day.

Terms and Abbreviations

• Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) − The highest level of a contaminant allowed in drinking water.• Treatment Technique (TT) − A required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water.• Action Level (AL) − The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment and other regulatory requirements.• Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL) − The highest level of a disinfectant allowed in drinking water. There is convincing evidence that addition of a disinfectant is necessary for control of microbial contaminants.• Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) − The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety.• Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG) − The level of a drinking water disinfectant, below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGs do not reflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contaminants.• Violation (No Abbreviation) − Failure to meet a Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulation.• Formal Enforcement Action (No Abbreviation) − Escalated action taken by the State (due to the risk to public health, or number or severity of violations) to bring a non-compliant water system back into compliance.• Variance and Exemptions (V/E) − Department permission not to meet a MCL or treatment technique under certain conditions.• Gross Alpha (No Abbreviation) − Gross alpha particle activity compliance value. It includes radium-226, but excludes radon 222, and uranium.• Picocuries per liter (pCi/L) − Measure of the radioactivity in water.• Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) − Measure of the clarity or cloudiness of water. Turbidity in excess of 5 NTU is just noticeable to the typical person.• Compliance Value (No Abbreviation) – Single or calculated value used to determine if regulatory contaminant level (e.g. MCL) is met. Examples of calculated values are the 90th Percentile, Running Annual Average (RAA) and Locational Running Annual Average (LRAA).• Average (x-bar) − Typical value. • Range (R) − Lowest value to the highest value.• Sample Size (n) − Number or count of values (i.e. number of water samples collected).• Parts per million = Milligrams per liter (ppm = mg/L) − One part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000.• Parts per billion = Micrograms per liter (ppb = ug/L) − One part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2,000 years, or a single penny in $10,000,000.• Not Applicable (N/A) – Does not apply or not available.

Detected Contaminants

WOODMOOR WSD routinely monitors for contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table(s) show all detections found in the period of January 1 to December 31, 2014 unless otherwise noted. The State of Colorado requires us to monitor for certain contaminants less

than once per year because the concentrations of these contaminants are not expected to vary significantly from year to year, or the system is not considered vulnerable to this type of contamination. Therefore, some of our data, though representative, may be more than one year old. Violations and Formal Enforcement Actions, if any, are reported in the next section of this report.

Note: Only detected contaminants sampled within the last 5 years appear in this report. If no tables appear in this section then no contaminants were detected in the last round of monitoring.

Legal Notice No.: 932600First Publication: July 1, 2015

Last Publication: July 1, 2015Publisher: Tri-Lake Tribune

WOODMOOR WSD, PWS ID: CO0121950 2015 CCR Page 2 of 5

Our Water Sources

Source Source Type Water Type Potential Source(s) of Contamination

NO 10 WELL Well Groundwater EPA Hazardous Waste Generators

EPA Chemical Inventory/Storage Sites

EPA Toxic Release Inventory Sites

Permitted Wastewater Discharge Sites

Aboveground, Underground and Leaking Storage Tank Sites

Existing/Abandoned Mine Sites

Other Facilities

Commercial/Industrial/Transportation

Low Intensity Residential

Urban Recreational Grasses

Row Crops

Fallow

Pasture/Hay

Forest

Septic Systems

Road Miles

NO 11 WELL Well Groundwater












MONUMENT CREEK Intake Surface Water

AUGUSTA PIT Intake Surface Water

WELL 20 Well Groundwater

LAKE WOODMOOR Intake Surface Water

Terms and Abbreviations

• Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) − The highest level of a contaminant allowed in drinking water. • Treatment Technique (TT) − A required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water. • Action Level (AL) − The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment and other regulatory

requirements. • Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL) − The highest level of a disinfectant allowed in drinking water. There

is convincing evidence that addition of a disinfectant is necessary for control of microbial contaminants. • Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) − The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no

known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety. • Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG) − The level of a drinking water disinfectant, below which there

is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGs do not reflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contaminants.

• Violation (No Abbreviation) − Failure to meet a Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulation. • Formal Enforcement Action (No Abbreviation) − Escalated action taken by the State (due to the risk to public health, or

number or severity of violations) to bring a non-compliant water system back into compliance. • Variance and Exemptions (V/E) − Department permission not to meet a MCL or treatment technique under certain

conditions. • Gross Alpha (No Abbreviation) − Gross alpha particle activity compliance value. It includes radium-226, but excludes

radon 222, and uranium. • Picocuries per liter (pCi/L) − Measure of the radioactivity in water.


Inorganic Contaminants Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System

Contaminant Name

Year Average Range Low – High

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Barium 2014 0.04 0.04 to 0.04 1 ppm 2 2 No Discharge of drilling wastes; discharge from

metal refineries; erosion of natural

deposits

Fluoride 2014 1.48 1.48 to 1.48 1 ppm 4 4 No Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which

promotes strong teeth; discharge

from fertilizer and aluminum factories

Nitrate 2014 0.07 0 to 0.4 6 ppm 10 10 No Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks,

sewage; erosion of natural deposits

Selenium 2014 1 1 to 1 1 ppb 50 50 No Discharge from petroleum and


deposits; discharge from mines

Violations, Significant Deficiencies, and Formal Enforcement Actions

No Violations or Formal Enforcement Actions


Disinfection Byproducts Sampled in the Distribution System

Name Year Average RangeLow – High

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG HighestCompliance

Value

MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Total Haloacetic

Acids (HAA5)

2014 13.2 1.16 to 48.06

8 ppb 60 N/A No Byproduct of drinking

water disinfection

Total Trihalome

thanes (TTHM)

2014 21.65 0 to 82.1 8 ppb 80 N/A No Byproduct of drinking

water disinfection

Summary of Turbidity Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System

Contaminant Name

Sample Date

Level Found TT Requirement TT Violation

Typical Sources

Turbidity Date/Month: 23/Sep

Highest single measurement: 0.348 NTU

Maximum 1 NTU for any single measurement

No Soil Runoff

Turbidity Month: Dec

Lowest monthly percentage of samples meeting TT requirement

for our technology: 100 %

In any month, at least 95% of samples must be less than 0.3

NTU

No Soil Runoff

Radionuclides Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System

Contaminant Name


Sample Size

Unit of Measure


Typical Sources

Gross Alpha 2013 1.31 0.83 to 2 5 pCi/L 15 0 No Erosion of natural deposits

Combined Radium

2013 2.08 0.8 to 3 4 pCi/L 5 0 No Erosion of natural deposits

Combined Uranium

2013 0.76 0 to 1.6 5 ppb 30 0 No Erosion of natural deposits


• Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) − Measure of the clarity or cloudiness of water. Turbidity in excess of 5 NTU is just noticeable to the typical person.

• Compliance Value (No Abbreviation) – Single or calculated value used to determine if regulatory contaminant level (e.g. MCL) is met. Examples of calculated values are the 90th Percentile, Running Annual Average (RAA) and Locational Running Annual Average (LRAA).

• Average (x-bar) − Typical value. • Range (R) − Lowest value to the highest value. • Sample Size (n) − Number or count of values (i.e. number of water samples collected). • Parts per million = Milligrams per liter (ppm = mg/L) − One part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or

a single penny in $10,000. • Parts per billion = Micrograms per liter (ppb = ug/L) − One part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2,000 years,

or a single penny in $10,000,000. • Not Applicable (N/A) – Does not apply or not available.

Detected Contaminants

WOODMOOR WSD routinely monitors for contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table(s) show all detections found in the period of January 1 to December 31, 2014 unless otherwise noted. The State of Colorado requires us to monitor for certain contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of these contaminants are not expected to vary significantly from year to year, or the system is not considered vulnerable to this type of contamination. Therefore, some of our data, though representative, may be more than one year old. Violations and Formal Enforcement Actions, if any, are reported in the next section of this report. Note: Only detected contaminants sampled within the last 5 years appear in this report. If no tables appear in this section then no contaminants were detected in the last round of monitoring.

Lead and Copper Sampled in the Distribution System

Contaminant Name

Time Period

90th Percentile

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

90th Percentile

AL

Sample Sites

Above AL

90th Percentile

AL Exceedance

Typical Sources

Copper 09/17/2013 to

09/18/2013

0.08 20 ppm 1.3 No Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of

natural deposits

Lead 09/17/2013 to

09/18/2013

2 20 ppb 15 No Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of

natural deposits



Name Year Average Range Low – High

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG Highest Compliance

Value

MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Total Haloacetic

Acids (HAA5)

2014 13.2 1.16 to 48.06


water disinfection

Total Trihalome

thanes (TTHM)


water disinfection


Contaminant Name

Sample Date


Typical Sources




No Soil Runoff





NTU

No Soil Runoff


Contaminant Name


Sample Size

Unit of Measure


Typical Sources


Combined Radium


Combined Uranium



Inorganic Contaminants Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System

Contaminant Name


Sample Size

Unit of Measure


Typical Sources

Barium 2014 0.04 0.04 to 0.04 1 ppm 2 2 No Discharge of drilling wastes; discharge from


deposits

Fluoride 2014 1.48 1.48 to 1.48 1 ppm 4 4 No Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which

promotes strong teeth; discharge

from fertilizer and aluminum factories

Nitrate 2014 0.07 0 to 0.4 6 ppm 10 10 No Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks,

sewage; erosion of natural deposits

Selenium 2014 1 1 to 1 1 ppb 50 50 No Discharge from petroleum and


deposits; discharge from mines

Violations, Significant Deficiencies, and Formal Enforcement Actions

No Violations or Formal Enforcement Actions



Name Year Average Range Low – High

Sample Size

Unit of Measure

MCL MCLG Highest Compliance

Value

MCL Violation

Typical Sources

Total Haloacetic

Acids (HAA5)

2014 13.2 1.16 to 48.06


water disinfection

Total Trihalome

thanes (TTHM)


water disinfection


Contaminant Name

Sample Date


Typical Sources




No Soil Runoff





NTU

No Soil Runoff


Contaminant Name


Sample Size

Unit of Measure


Typical Sources


Combined Radium


Combined Uranium


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